‘Theatrmt Botaniam, 
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Uveete in talk, nor giveth any Dye as the Braflill doth, and befides,the Saunders is heavier then it, and will finke 
in water, it is'allb a ha; derand (hotter grained wood, and more brittle in breaking Ihorr. They aie all both coo- 
lin” and cordiall, and ufed together in lundry cordiall medicines, but the white, and the yellovv are the more 
cordiall and comfortable by realbnot their l weeteneiTe, and the red more cooling and binding, which quality yet 
neither of the other want, although in a ldTe proportion, for the red is tried ol ten today defluxions of thinue 
nheume from the head, and to coole hot inflammations,hot gouts,and in hot agues, to coole and temper the heat: 
but the white and yellow arc both cordiall and cephalicall, apply: d with Rolewater to the temples, procuring 
eafe in the head ache, and are Angular good foi weake and fainting Romackes, through heater in the hot fits of 
agues alio, they are very profitably applycd in Epitbemes or Fomentations, both for the (fomacke, and fortne 
(pities, and palpitarionsof the heart, which alfo doe confforc and ftrengthen them, temperate the melanchoily 
humour, and procureth alacrity and mirth, which qualities are attributed to the yellow more then the white, 
which is ufed more to flay andbinde fluxes of the fperme in manor woman, for which purpofe, cither the peu- 
ther taken in a rcareegge or mixed with other things for the purpofe, orfteeped in red Wine, and kept in an 
hot Balneo. or in hoc embers clofe flopped all night, and drained forth and dtunke in the morning and evening, 
both ftayeththc Gonorrhea, or running of the remes in men, and the whites in women : applyed alio to M a ides 
or womens great brefts, mixed with the j'uyce of Put flane.abateth their greatneffe, and reprefleth their overmuch 
growing. 
Ch a?. XLVIII. 
Ffmdof.ir.tahiiCrcticA Aboliccndiflj, 
Ballard red Saunders of Candj, 
P/eJdo/iwata entic .1 AMicndiCU. 
13?.lt.ird red Saundeis of Candy. 
His tree groweth in Candy, and rr.ac'e 
knowne to Alp”':a ,whole figure was fent 
him as I here lliew it you, with this de- 
fcription fr.!lowin’g.It is a tree that grow¬ 
eth to a rcafjnable great height,* ftraight 
upright, fumiflied with many arcies 
and branches, very bsautifull to behold, fet with faire 
grecne leaves one at a place, liki’untothdfe of Alatrrnur, 
butrouaderanddeeplier endented abotrt the edges: the 
flowers were not obferved what forme or colour they 
bore; but the iruitc was round, and of the biggeneffc of 
Pepper comes, of adarkegreenifh colour which were 
not perreftly ripe,when this tree was found. The wood it 
felfeisfomewhat fwcetc, hard, and reddifh fb that it fec- 
med like red Saundersefpeeially being made into pouther 
from whence I thinkc faith he, Jt may ncftmfltly be called 
BaRard red Saunders ol Candy, fbme of the wood faith 
c Pv*a, hath beene brought into Truly, and there fold for 
Sannacrs: but it differs from it in' that it is nothing fo hea¬ 
vy as the true ted Saunders is J ' 
Chat. XLIX. 
Sajfaphrae. The Saffafras or Ague tree. 
He firfl knowledge of this Saffafras or Ague tree cameby the French to ourChriftian world, and 
to the Spam.irdiby driving out the French , who had feated themfelves fomewhatneere the F/o- 
ridt, which they claimed for themfelves for they having gotten Agues, and fu ellings in their 
legges, and other difeafes by lying on the ground in the open aire by bad viffualls and raw 
drinke of water, as the French before them had, by a Frenchman that remained among them, 
were taught the life of this tree, which he and his Country men had learned before ofthe Natives, 
to 
